Behold The Lovely Monster

By Joseph B. Raimond

Originally planned to be Joseph B. Raimond's second book, these poems were written in the 1990s, shortly after the publication of Joseph'sfirst book "Edges". Recently rediscovered, they remained unpublished until now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Sep 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9783752650853

Joseph B. Raimond

Born in 1962 in Omaha Nebraska in the United States, Joseph B. Raimond was the son of a US Air Force officer. After living in such diverse places as Laon France, three different places in Virginia, Denver Colorado, Dayton Ohio, Darmstadt Germany, and finally Los Angeles California, Joseph B. Raimond moved to San Francisco California where he studied art, with an emphasis on ceramics. After completing his Bachelors degree in 1985, he moved to the Fuerth Germany area, where he has lived ever since, refusing to ever move again! He completed his Masters degree in the spring of 2009 in Humanities, focusing on the interaction between various forms of art and expression. He built a house in the year 2000, complete with a painting atelier and recording studio, where he is able to work on his painting, writing and recording projects. Besides many exhibitions óf his paintings in Paris, San Francisco, Munich, Koeln, Berlin and his hometown area of Fuerth, Germany, he has under the collective name Doc Woer Mirran published almost two hundred recordings of his audio art and music. He has also written more than thirty books, most of which feature his punk-rock inspired form of writing. Pulling no punches, everyone and anyone can become a target of his politically inspired poetry, his favorite victims often including republican and other right-wing politicians, television evangelists, reality shows, lame pop icons and arrogant jazz guitarists.

Book preview

MIRRAN THOUGHT

Written in Nürnberg & Fürth, Germany in the mid 1990s.

As always, in loving memory of Frank Abendroth and Tom Murphy.

For Conny, my perfect angel.

Dedicated to John Lewis.

Cover art 2005, untitled, by Joseph B. Raimond.

This is DWM release Nr. 179

Table of Contents

- Ambush -

- Beckon me as heaven -

- Refusing to be spent -

- Dickseed -

- Keep me busy -

- My beloved ketchup-

- Forgiveness-

- Red hair -

- The relationship of hell -

- My sun is always setting -

- We all suck -

- My big failure -

- Relief -

- Scientific theory -

- Mr. Mud -

- Momentum -

- For bernard -

- Little green titties -

- Subscription to life -

- My cup of hate -

- Tear -

- Fringes -

- Down under -

- Bay area poem -

- Love of free rain -

- Syntax vs. Income tax -

- I don’t kiss ass for a living -

- Your problem -

- Sleeping successful -

- Change (The poem) -

- Total despair -

- Behold the lovely monster -

- You once -

- The old lady brigade -

- Routine of pains -

- Ice-age -

- The robot needs no light -

- Where did i leave my head? -

- Olympics -

- I’m responsible-

- Mrs. Fatso has nothing to eat -

- I’m not allowed -

- Uninspired-

- Everybody -

- Stupid people, smart people -

- I will fight! -

- A blind hippy -

- I guess-

- Frau city -

- Nothing left to save -

- Paranoid -

- Clumps of shit -

- Trucker slut -

- Nor even care -

- Indecisiveness -

- Stutters with rage -

- I don’t know -

- I am what I am -

- Name, rank and serial number -

- Reside -

- Absurd -

- Rock music -

- Ocean storm -

- Numb -

- You’re a snake -

- Thirty three -

- Coal in my eyes -

- My written word -

- Gonna limit myself -

- Bill -

- Automatic -

- Ponder-

- Restless-

- Fame-

- Paradox-

- For my pal bernd-

- Ants, like the specks they are-

- My sun is always setting (Remix)-

- My version of the morning-

- Granted-

- Murderer-

- Proud -

- Little lovers say -

- Of me -

- The artillerization -

- Petrarch never got laid -

- Untitled for obvious reasons -

- Youth -

- Scatterbrain-

- Puppet of a tyrant -

- Baseball shadow -

- Racehorse -

- Brainwash -

- Kritique -

- Bordeaux mast -

- J. Selvin -

- Joints -

- Touch with my breath -

- Metaphor -

- The red wheelbarrow -

- B. Weber -

- Titan -

- Precarious -

- Clouds -

- Groundpounder -

- Billboards -

- Sucks -

- Assume -

- Mother, Father -

- Fleet -

- Birds -

- Letter